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Dr Manette
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So my theories of women are all for naught?


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Lmao Dazzag

"It's like floating a boat on a liquid that I don't know, but I'm quite happy to drink it if I'm thirsty enough" - Me being a good programmer but sucking at computers
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@Zombie, I too respect women and they are great fun, despite my comments, they're no Alien to me, the past year my sixth form 'hang out' groups consisted of 3 blokes (including myself) and 4 girls and believe me that can be a laugh, especially when they get revenge on you for being evil. Shame I blew it with that one girl, I think I took one too many jokes too far, but hey when teenaged like a girl, they turn into idiots over them when they don't know what they're doing.

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NeX the Fairly Fast Ferret
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Posted: 17th Aug 2007 00:31
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I'm stuck in Uttoxeter. Besides working for a charity shop, there's nothing to do. Can't visit friends because they live 20 miles away and it costs £15 for a train ticket there and back, not to mention that parents don't want to drive me there. There's a bus service, but I'd be 70 by the time I got there. No, seriously. It takes 2 hours for it to do the 20 mile journey back to Cannock. This is why I hate the 6 weeks. Why not break it up into tons of 1-week holidays?


Since the other one was scaring you guys so much...
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Posted: 17th Aug 2007 00:31 Edited at: 17th Aug 2007 00:34
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Quote: "Any other girls I've had Have always left me cause I panic almost around girls, never know what to say and I end up saying some random junk about Dark Basic."

ouch lol, none of the girls I know have any idea I do DB lol
"Do you do DB?"
Don't worry about saying the right things, actually just plain ignoring them will have them running to you, for some strange reason
As for being nervous around them just spend time with girls, it's that simple.

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Posted: 17th Aug 2007 13:35
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How ironic that a topic about being bored has become a hot topic...

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Quote: "She went for the classic 'sorry I'm moving as far away as possible' excuse then? Atleast she let you down gently. (sorry, that actually sounded funny in my head)."


Well I dunno if it was australia but she deifiantly moved away, I went to her house a few weeks after, and there was this old couple livin there.

Quote: "I've never had a girlfriend before because all the girls I know are either (1) not my type (2) unintelligent (3) ugly, or (4) too focused on popularity"


Same or they think I'm (1) Not her type (2) Inteligent (3) Ugly (4) not popular enough.


Quote: "Just talk to girls like they're regular people"


I try, but I always get the feeling they are thinking "Quick which way is the best way out? Through the window? Onto the roof? Dig a tunnel? Call a SWAT team?"


Quote: "As for being nervous around them just spend time with girls, it's that simple."


I aint got a girl to spend time with, I aint hangin round with my mother.

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If it makes you feel better I have only one person I could really call a friend. I'm dead serious! Really I've got to find a way of making more friends! Maybe it's because I have a silent personality and I go quiet around people, and I don't go to school, and I don't have really any sporting or other activities that I do. Although recently I've become interested in soccer so maybe I should take that up, who knows I might meet some people!


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Hey Zoto, don't feel so bad buddy, all of my friends are a good distance from me too, its just me and my roomies and the adventures we have. But you know what bud, being bored is actually the casue of some of those aswome days, finally i'll get fed up and say "epletive" I'm going out and its time for a great day! And then whoo I'm out on another grand journey to witness the beauty of mother nature.

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Posted: 17th Aug 2007 16:51 Edited at: 17th Aug 2007 16:52
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Just go to the pub and drink lots of beer with people. Honest. Get in a couple of vodka chasers too. Really.

Personally I've never had a problem with talking and getting on with people (I'm trying to take Fallout's modesty crown, plus at the same time try for the misunderstood words championship), but being a full time programmer you sort of hang around enough sad cases to get the idea. Don't get me wrong, I'm on the wrong side of geek to be good for me, but I don't have any problems socialising. Anyway, my point is the one thing that made the people with no social skills (and there is a *lot* in IT) feel more part of the group was alcohol. I'm not taking the mick here. I've seen totally introverted (seen that Monk program?) people join our company, be practically dragged down the pub, and then after a few pints they become comedian of the year or something and get on with everyone.

After all, the last thing my (can't remember subject; I was either not there or asleep in most of my lectures...) lecturer told the class at the end of our 3rd year that if you are doing a speech or job interview then have an alcohol drink before hand. Loosens you right up. I've never had a problem with speeches, but job interviews (when I was being interviewed, never the other way round) always freaked me out a bit (think it's the authority thing). So I got my first job after having 2 or 3 Guinesses. Went back for a couple more and to watch the match afterwards. Good times...

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Quote: "Just go to the pub and drink lots of beer with people. Honest. Get in a couple of vodka chasers too. Really. "


That's exactly what I wanna do! Too bad I'm underage

I guess it would be fun trying, and if I manage, woohoo, if I dont, it'll be a laugh.

"It's like floating a boat on a liquid that I don't know, but I'm quite happy to drink it if I'm thirsty enough" - Me being a good programmer but sucking at computers
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Wow, I wish my colleages drag me down the pub, I wish they even asked, I here 'em talkin about goin down the pub, one person goes round askin just about everyone if they want to come except me.

I'm not socialable, I'd be more socialable if I knew people that were into the same thing as me (3D, Programming) but all my Mates (Note that I call them 'Mates' not 'friends') Can hardly read and write and still think they are all something special.

I noticed this one bloke who was 2 years higher than me in school, always had no friends and was really clever, then when He became Practicly bathing in money everyone wanted to know him and he told them to go away, I dont blame him though. I just wished when I knew him I became friends with him, I wasnt one of the bullys (Cause I was always being picked on too).

I wish Someone on these forums lived near me, not necercerily in the same town, but at least within a 40 mile radius of me, then I'd most probably be more socialable cause I'll gain social skills from people like me and gain more confidence to socialize and get courage to ask the girl I like on a date.


Sorry about me ranting on about how terrible my life is, but I like to get it out of my system every now and again. (I almost made the last person commit suicide),
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Posted: 18th Aug 2007 09:08 Edited at: 18th Aug 2007 09:30
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Quote: "Personally I've never had a problem with talking and getting on with people (I'm trying to take Fallout's modesty crown."


Oh yea well I'm way more modest than you hahaha.

Seriously though zoto, as you can see we've all been down the path before but we've also all come out of it. So you can't drink, invade that crazy geek mind of yours and build up a crazy comic. Are you an artist? I know a good site for free to post up stuff and people are nice enough to comment on it, if not oh well haha. Hang in there bud, things will look up and if all else fails, come here for some support for me, I always have nice words to spare. Unless I'm out biking then I kinda can't type haha.

Well hey I was a little bored tonight so I'll show you all a world premier. My very first draft of my paint produced title screen for my upcoming game.

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Quote: "Too bad I'm underage"
And? We always had a laugh dodging the police in bars.

People can preach about how people should like you for who you are as much as they want. Unfortuantly it is a true fact of life that some people need a helping hand when it comes to being social. And, also unfortuantly, there appears to be more than the fair share of people like this in IT.

One my best mates where I used to work was a complete tard in the day, having the social skills of a partially retarded brick, but was a good laugh in the night after sinking a couple. He was a legend when he got up and did Kung Fu Fighting on the Kareoke machine, with all the moves and everything (this is a guy who would stay quiet when you asked him a question just in case you were not talking to him. Even when there was just you two in the whole room).

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You think your bored. I'm living in Alnwick. And don't pretend you know where that is!
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I think people here are getting the idea that I'm having problems being social That's not it at all, when I'm at school or around girls I do fine, no problem. My problem is the way I live life - sitting in my room on my computer. I'm not literarly bored, because I can do alot of things on my computer to pass the time, or even play my guitar or watch TV. I just wanna be able to go out more and make the best of my teenage years.

Dazzag,

Not a bad idea. I was actually talking to my friend yesterday and he came into school after lunchtime a bit tipsy, having been to the pub and got some drinks. I guess it's not just fun being in the pub, but trying to get in

"It's like floating a boat on a liquid that I don't know, but I'm quite happy to drink it if I'm thirsty enough" - Me being a good programmer but sucking at computers
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Posted: 18th Aug 2007 16:28
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Quote: "this is a guy who would stay quiet when you asked him a question just in case you were not talking to him."


Sounds like how shy/socially poor my friend is, whenever the teacher asked him a question, he'd go red in nervousness, people liked him and I always tried to get him to socialise with my other friends more, instead he insisted on going home during free lessons, but the poor guy always used to get bullied because of his scalp condition (that made him bald) and everybody in the sixth form saw that he was a decent guy - but he could do well socially.

As for going to the pub, that is true, the amount of people that don't drink underage in the UK is so scarce - generally you don't have to be 18 to sit in a pub and drink, so if you have a glass of Coke and socialise you can have a laugh without the booze, but if you don't get ID'd for a pint, well that's a bonus. Just don't do what my Mum did as a teen, go out on pub run before an exam, because you'll be drunk for the exam.

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Heh, I remember recently when my brother went out with everyone after the school prom, and they all went to a pub, and my brother (still being over 18) forgot to take ID, and he didn't get served... even on his prom day... stupid eh?

"It's like floating a boat on a liquid that I don't know, but I'm quite happy to drink it if I'm thirsty enough" - Me being a good programmer but sucking at computers
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Quote: "if you have a glass of Coke and socialise you can have a laugh without the booze"
Yeah, true, I mean tonight I was driving and we went out with my parents to a steak house. But I was driving and didn't drink. No worries though as I can have a good time and be myself without it. What I'm saying though is a lot of people need alcohol to unwind them a bit and act (what we consider) normal. Without it they are basically silent and just sit there. This can also backfire of course. The Kung fu fighting guy for example used to headbutt the table after about 5 pints and once told this big bloke and his friends that I had been slagging him off all night when I went to the toilet (at that point my teeth were floating really badly). Walked out of the cubicle to find three blokes asking why I called the bloke in the middle a short arse ****. Ummm. After managing to get out of there with like low medium level damage (God, that wrong side of geek becomes more apparent in text...) it's not so good having a gang of geeks on your side. Although one or two of the more unsocial ones were happily almost psychotic at that point. That helped...

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Yeah, my friends also use alcohol in the wrong way. They tend to play "see who can puke first" competitions, even if nobody really brings that up. They all just drink, and drink, and drink, puke, drink, and drink, etc, till they run out of alcohol.

"It's like floating a boat on a liquid that I don't know, but I'm quite happy to drink it if I'm thirsty enough" - Me being a good programmer but sucking at computers
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Quote: "Yeah, true, I mean tonight I was driving and we went out with my parents to a steak house. But I was driving and didn't drink. No worries though as I can have a good time and be myself without it."


Designated driver eh? It tends to be the designated drivers and people who can't afford enough drinks at a party are the only ones not drunk, I unfortunately am the latter. Last party I went to, 3 people weren't out of their head, me, a designated driver and a guy who needs quite a few to get drunk.

Quote: "They tend to play "see who can pule first" competitions, even if nobody really brings that up. They all just drink, and drink, and drink, puke, drink, and drink, etc, till they run out of alcohol."


I think that's dumb (no offence as they're your friends), not only is it dangerous but you're out to have a good time, how can you have a good time when you're puking up and out of it? This seems a popular 'game' amongst a lot of us young Britons and is a daft one at that. But hey, if they want alcohol poisoning and liver failure, it's up to them.

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Yep. Although luckily I have no problems with conversations without alcohol. Only downside is you don't relax as much and you tend to notice people getting drunk which is really annoying. Especially when they start repeating themselves. Of course I am a complete hero when drunk; I'm talking about everyone else

Quote: ""see who can pule first" competitions"
Yeah, surprisingly I never got into drinking games. Even the polite "use your left hand when drinking otherwise you down it" type ones. And especially not the military grade (literally; I hung around with some RAF blokes for a while) type games. "See who can puke first" is pretty bad, but worse is the "See who pukes into a pint glass, then you down that pint glass" type games. No no no...

Saying all that, everyone has to try a yard of ale on their birthday at least once. I couldn't quite do it (bit at the bottom is difficult), although mainly because they wouldn't put Guiness in it (especially love Guiness and black, but you have to avoid looking like a pansy...), and I hate Ale. After you do it once then do everything possible to avoid doing it again Once saw this northern bird finish off a yard of ale in record time after necking a pint of lager in one. Was very impressive. Note though that it isn't the necking of a lot of ale in one go (2.5 pints I believe) that is the problem, it's all to do with the speed and weight etc. Try it; it's fun.

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Quote: "Only downside is you don't relax as much and you tend to notice people getting drunk which is really annoying. Especially when they start repeating themselves."


Yeah it's not much fun, but at least you're the only person that remembers who did what, and that's enough for the laughs on the next day.

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Quote: "you're the only person that remembers who did what"
True, but I normally have a good time even without beer. These days with mobile phones having multi megapixel cameras then don't need a sober person to explain what happened

Saying that, I really need a beer now. And I just finished work...

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Go to the beach haha..

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Enjoy your beer.

Quote: "These days with mobile phones having multi megapixel cameras then don't need a sober person to explain what happened"


That is true, my friend recorded herself singing to Bon Jovi drunk on her phone - come the next day at school, she played it back and asked 'Was I really that drunk' - the answer I think is obvious.

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Quote: "If it makes you feel better I have only one person I could really call a friend. I'm dead serious! Really I've got to find a way of making more friends! Maybe it's because I have a silent personality and I go quiet around people, and I don't go to school, and I don't have really any sporting or other activities that I do. Although recently I've become interested in soccer so maybe I should take that up, who knows I might meet some people!"

I know how it feels I used to be like that, and then you are afraid to act any differently because you've already set your personality in stone
Like everything though you just need practice, you wont turn into a guest speaker over night but you'll be a lot happier if you just try to involve yourself more
Sport is a great way to make friends, anything where you are judged on your abilities is good for people who aren't that great socially, it'll make you more confident and you'll have a group of people you can talk to. PS don't expect to like everyone amateur sports teams are breeding grounds for jackasses and every team has a few.

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hahah oh yea..i've met some real characters in my life..not everyone is great but the more you socialize the better you become at it. I can make a friend in about 30 secs..no seriously thats how easy it is for me to consider you a friend, being outgoing and random works together really well.

One time I brought in a bunch of stuff from home I didn't want and said in the main hall at school "Ian Xmas! Come and get gifts!" So I threw stuff out and whoever wanted it got it haha..then another time I brought a bowling ball in and we were passing it around the circle of us haha. One guy was stupid and actually tried to kick it and hurt his toe.

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im bored hearing your bored lol

theres a billion things to do,just means ur a boring person lol
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Quote: "theres a billion things to do,just means ur a boring person lol "

Just think, there could be something that you'd really enjoy doing and you just don't know about, how much would that suck that you are sitting around and missing out. I only just started playing basketball and I love it, I've missed out my whole life on that England is so one-dimensional; I like football (actually pretty good) but there ARE other sports out there!
And going off on OBese's personal information line: I found a court that has 9ft rims (instead of 10ft) and I can dunk it there! It is so cool one of them was bent down so it was even easier and I was doing 180 dunks and tomahawks! I recommend lowering the rim just to get a feel for dunking cos it's harder than it looks lol.

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Basketball rocks, rugby and football *american football* for me though..love showing off my agility.

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I used to be so unagile (if that's a word) until I started playing BBall and it's improved my football too My overall goal is to dunk it in a full size hoop, thats gonna kick ass I am 6'2 and 7'11 with my arms stretched so I'm gonna have to jump about 3ft to dunk it!!! (the ball is about 9 inches)
Those guys who are 7ft tall barely have to move lol

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Quote: "These days with mobile phones having multi megapixel cameras then don't need a sober person to explain what happened"

Call me old fashioned, but my phone is rotting somewhere in my room as we speak with no money or battery. I never use it, though recently I found the need greater, not just to contact people, but giving the girls my number becomes a bit difficult.

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I skipped my phone across the street, two skips and a skid..phone still worked so I ran my car over it..I kind had a "I hate cell phones phase"

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Quote: "If it makes you feel better I have only one person I could really call a friend. I'm dead serious! "


I know what that's like, I would make new friends, seriously if you don't like the ones you got - don't stick with idiots you don't like because you feel you ought to - the day I ditched mine was the best day of my life.

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boredom is the waste of a brilliant mind.

really, whos fault is it if your bored.?

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how did i miss this thread=[
i never saw it till now.

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Quote: " don't stick with idiots you don't like because you feel you ought to"


It's not that easy, really. My friends are really nice people, and I like them, but the problem is that they are the biggest geeks in school, they sit and play DS all day, during class, during lunch, during interval, all the time. No girls hang around with them, hence with me. Sometimes I actually have to walk away from them to talk to the girls, and them my friends keep saying I ditch them. Another problem is that they never, ever go out. They play video games 24/7

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You sound just like David Brent in that post

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Whoa. I'm lucky with my girlfriend if I read this stuff. She actually likes to see my programs evolve (given I don't spend all day on it) and my idea's spring to (virtual) life.

If you're bored, my personal tip is: Go do something odd. I don't know. Go do something you'd never do.


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As I said, it's a different kind of boredom

"It's like floating a boat on a liquid that I don't know, but I'm quite happy to drink it if I'm thirsty enough" - Me being a good programmer but sucking at computers
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Posted: 21st Aug 2007 23:10 Edited at: 21st Aug 2007 23:11
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Quote: "You sound just like David Brent in that post

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well shoot I don't know who that is..bad or good thing?

Zoto-I'm a big gamer myself but you're friends are being a little extreme saying you're ditching them, just tell them that you are responding to the signals within your body..you wanna go get your groove on haha. My god that sounded corny.

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Posted: 22nd Aug 2007 00:29
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Quote: "well shoot I don't know who that is..bad or good thing?"


I know the feeling, my Karate instructor said I look like Wayne Rooney...in terms of body structure...but he only told me body structure when I told him that I was offended.

A brainwave - does your area have a youth club or a community centre - okay ours is full of chavs - but you might find something to do there, you might find a good club or something.

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Okay I've been meaning to ask you seppuku, I have an idea of what one is but I need confirmation..whats a chav hahahah!

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Heh, my area is ned capital (the Scottish equivalent of a chav). I get bother trying to get shopping out the car or walking my dog. I aint going near there heh, this area doesn't harvest my kind of people.

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Posted: 22nd Aug 2007 00:57
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It's probably for your own good that you don't know. Chav stands for 'Counsel Housed And Violent' unfortunately it was a name made up by England's worst newspaper, which I hate to death, 'The Sun' (Ironically a lot of it's readers are chavs). They tend to be the type living in a crappy neighbourhood or 'da hood' - they where certain different things, they tend to be white and come with a baseball cap. The tracksuit is the common fashion for chavs in my area - the have the tough guy act - even though individually they're weaklings, but when in groups with baseball bats and knuckle dusters they can do damage. They idolise bling bling rappers, bling bling hip hop (usually, I know one that listens to Dream Theatre, which is very odd) - they some times where bling. Fred Perry, Nike and Adidas tend to be their brand names. Plus they're all about sex and violence - they take what's 'tendy' into their likes - even urban language, and the 50 Cent attitude - they'd probably 'bust a cap in your ass' in some places - they tend to vary, but are very easy to spot out by their fashion sense, the way they walk and the expression on they face that says 'What you looking at?'. You could say a scene kid is on the opposite end of a chav - just darker with a different attitude and an appearance similar to Emos - or at least the scene kids I've seen are like that.

Quote: "Heh, my area is ned capital (the Scottish equivalent of a chav). I get bother trying to get shopping out the car or walking my dog. I aint going near there heh, this area doesn't harvest my kind of people."


Ah one of the odd ones out, I suppose that's common for our types, I tried merging in with the emos (don't ask why) in my town - they were happy to accept me because I'm a metaller, but God they're morons squared. A lot of places in England get filled with the antisocial types - I guess you have every right to be bored matey, if you put on 50 Cent, slap on a baseball cap and bat and have the sudden urge to say 'innit' then you'll have a lot to do and a lot of people to anti-socialise with - but is it really worth losing all dignity and self respect for?

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Seppuku-Well dang man..let me tell ya something I'm looking at my bat right now and I have to say..five on one would really suck but you gotta fight and you gotta run sometimes. But man..I can't stand the people you just described..they're somehow attracted to me..I got out of high school when that and emo was just starting.

Do they generally leave you alone or do they start crap..because
I'll just keep moving but if they touch me or one of my friends someone is getting some broken fingers. Although they sound pretty scary with a whole lot of them and baseball bats..are they in shape? I ask because I want to visit the UK and I have a tendency to find trouble without really trying hard, and to be honest I would like to have a good time and not spend time at the infimary. I've read around these threads that the UK has a good deal of violence which worries me and puzzles me at the same time.

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great..now I'm bored..thanks zoto..took a few days but I caught your disease and its freaking gonna storm outside. NOoooooo I must go and play!

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Posted: 22nd Aug 2007 01:53 Edited at: 22nd Aug 2007 01:54
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Depends on the chav and the area TBH - the notorious gang cities will look for people they can victimise - tend to cause trouble when they're at school - but in the main urban parts of the town, I don't know, simply because I live rurally. Not all of them use weapons, not all of them attack in gangs and not all of them attack strangers. It's kind of hard to say 'exactly' what a chav is other than by 'The Sun's' description, because it's a broad term...Plus with all of the deodorant and flammable clothing, they're an eco friendly source of fuel to burn...unfortunately the government prefers wind farms. I've never been attacked by a chav, nor have I got on the wrong side of someone, because when I talk to someone I know what to say and how to humour people rather than saying something to annoy them...though it's not evident here

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hahaha..yea I too try and stay on people's good sides but sometimes it can't be helped no matter how funny you're being. And then mr. zombie will be turning on the jet turbines in his legs and scooting on out of there. Unlike some bravado talkers..I do know when to run wooot for me.

After hearing this though I feel so lucky to be where I am right now, I live rurally myself and there isn't a whole lot bad happening, gotta worry about foxes and wolves though. The only bad thing that really makes my blood boil is down the way a couple of miles there is a small untended graveyard that has clearly been trampled by ungrateful youths..headstones cracked and pushed over as they appeared to have been abused more than once. I cannot condone those actions and there have been a few lurkers around here at night..I'm out late at night myself sometimes but I don't go looking for trouble..I'm just out for a night walk. I've never personally seen these troublemakers but my roomie said back when she was in high school two years ago they used to roam the roads looking for girls to rape and beat up..same people who abused the graves.

I looked her in the eye with one of my most serious looks I've ever given and said "If I ever catch one of them in these grounds you better come bail me out of jail..because god will not forgive what I will do to them." But..I'm really a very nice guy..I just have strong beliefs haha.

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